The Pact -

Jodi Picoult

Allen & Unwin

1998

451 páginas

15h 2m

ISBN-13: 9781741140361

For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty-- they've grown so close it seems they have always been a part of each other's lives. Parents and children alike have been best friends, so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born.

So when midnight calls from the hospital come in, no one is ready for the appalling truth: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There's a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris took from his father's cabinet-- a bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a local detective has doubts about the suicide pact that Chris has described.

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3 (Bom)

O livro é muito bem escrito e a estoria bem desenvolvida.
Todos os personagens têm uma densidade psicologica muito bem definida e a capacidade descritiva da autora é incrivel, contudo não gostei do livro. Achei muito deprimente. Quando terminei de le-lo tinha dentro de mim a mesma sensação de quando li "Uma Tragedia Americana" do Theodore Dreiser. Acho que estou de novo na minha fase de querer um mundo cor-de-rosa. Com certeza é um livro que tenho que reler para ver se estou sendo realmente justa.